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Immigration News
- 09/08/2022 Fox 4 Kansas City: Groups push reforms to ease farm labor shortages
- 09/05/2022 NBC News: Farmers pushing for immigration reform to counter labor shortages and escalating food prices
- 09/02/2022 WTHR: Indiana farmers’ plea to US senators: Pass immigration reform to stabilize farm costs, lower food prices
- 08/18/2022 The Seattle Times: Ostrom Mushroom Farms faces civil rights lawsuit on gender, other discrimination
- 08/08/2022 U.S. Department of Labor: US Department of Labor recovers $44K after investigation finds Idaho farms underpaid migrant farmworkers, provided substandard housing
- 08/02/2022 The Bulletin: Group says immigration reform would help lower produce prices
- 07/31/2022 The Transylvania Times: Mexican migrant workers keep local farms going
- 07/29/2022 The Seattle Times: WA orchard violated foreign farmworkers’ rights, federal investigation finds
- 07/25/2022 Politico: The clock ticks down on immigration deal that could help rein in food inflation
- 07/22/2022 Boundless: Defense Bill Could Be Last Chance for Immigration Laws This Year
- 07/20/2022 23ABC News Bakersfield: Push to improve migrant worker living conditions
- 07/18/2022 The Fence Post: Newhouse, farm groups urge Senate action on farmworker immigration bill
- 07/15/2022 Feed Strategy: US Senate urged to pass Farm Workforce Modernization Act
- 07/12/2022 Bloomberg Government: Immigrant Farmworker Bill Gets Boost From House Republicans
- 07/07/2022 WOSU News – WOSU Public Media: Business and religious leaders meet in Clintonville to call for immigration advocacy and policy reform
- 07/06/2022 Channel 3 News: Congressman Ruiz builds support for legislation inspired by César Chávez, farmworker advocacy
- 06/28/2022 RFD-TV: Congressmen introduce amendment to H-2A
- 06/23/2022 KYMA: Farmworkers looking for more rights in Imperial County
- 06/23/2022 Rafu Shimpo: Senator Spends a Day on Muranaka Farm
- 06/23/2022 Daily Kos: ‘Put the food on our table every day’: Labor icon Dolores Huerta urges passage of farmworker bill
- 06/22/2022 Congresssional Hispanic Caucus: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Hosts Press Conference with Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers, and National and Local Advocacy Organizations to Call for Passage of Farm Workforce Modernization Act
- 06/22/2022 NorthJersey.com: ‘Agriculture would disappear’: Advocates pushing for farm labor protections in NJ
- 06/21/2022 Daily Kos: Cory Booker becomes the second senator to join farmworkers as part of ‘Take Our Jobs’ challenge
- 06/17/2022 Cory Booker becomes second U.S. senator to work alongside farm workers as part of the ‘Take Our Jobs’ campaign
- 06/14/2022 AgNet: Up to $65 Million to Become Available to Support Farm Employers with H-2A Workers